Chapter 56
In the end, nothing was eaten that night, Su Orange arrived home at two o’clock in the morning.
Pushing the door, she did not take off her clothes and went into the bedroom, lying on the bed with her legs curled up, her face buried in the quilt, closing her eyes and recalling the events of the night in detail.
His words “is there still a possibility” evoked a lot of memories, mixed memories, the most impressive to her is that day.
He came into their dormitory without a care in the world and asked her with scarlet eyes, “Do you really have no regrets?”
What did she answer at that time?
She suppressed her emotions and said in a faint voice, “Uh, no regrets.”
The emotion under his eyes got heavier, the ends of his eyes were a little wet, the tear moles looked brighter than ever, and in the middle of the stalemate, she took out the two anklets from the box next to her pillow.
“Give them back.” She said.
He looked at the two chains, then at her, and suddenly laughed; then, taking the chains, he gave them a hard tug, and then went out on the balcony, and with all his strength threw them outward.
People in a rage will have a lot of strength, the chain was thrown into the grass, but also coincidentally, he left in the front foot, the back foot rain.
Su orange umbrella did not play, jacket also did not wear ran downstairs, in the bushes to find a long time, from the sky percolating bright light, found the dark.
Her hands were covered with dirt and weeds, grabbing handful after handful, but every time it wasn’t.
The rain got heavier and heavier, and Yu Lele came down with an umbrella to look for her, asking her to stop looking and go back quickly.
She didn’t listen, still kneeling there looking for it, and finally found the already deformed chain in a puddle of water, with two of the bells on it falling off, and sharp bumps in the broken places.
She had to give up after searching many stores to fix it to no avail.
During that time she was as usual in front of people, but secretly cried several times behind her back, as if what was broken was not the chain, but her heart.
If the heart is hard, in fact, his heart is more ruthless.
Rawly ripped off the chain, left with anger, lost contact for eight years, cut off all contact.
It is like uprooting everything from the root, even if it is beautiful, he does not want it.
Su Orange rolled the quilt and changed direction again, her eyes fell on that window, and she could see the bright bright moon at a glance when she raised her eyes.
She suddenly remembered that night, in that small hotel, there was also a window like this, the car came from far and near, the light from the window slanting in, reflected on the wall of the shadow are overlapping.
In that moment he was wrapping himself around her in a passionate kiss.
Seemingly pierced by the moonlight, Su Orange’s eyes closed and opened again, driving the disturbing thoughts away, whatever his intentions were when he just said that, she would guard her heart.
If you miss it, you miss it.
Time could not be regained, and there was not the slightest possibility of her and him.
Su Orange didn’t sleep very well this night, she kept having dreams about the breakup, the dreams were still recurring, replaying over and over again, she cried and cried.
He made a scene and made a scene.
The bracelet broke and broke.
Finally it was the glass bottle that fell to the ground and shattered, smashing out a heavy sound, Su Orange woke up from her dream, looked at the familiar surroundings, let out a long breath, and raised her hand to her forehead to calm her heartbeat.
The rustling sound has not stopped, a few moments later Su Orange opened his eyes, lifted the covers and got out of bed, slippers are not even worn, barefoot out of the bedroom.
Zhao Xiao Xiao was making breakfast, unfortunately, she had just broken a bowl, Su Orange saw this and finally realized where the clanking sound was coming from, seeing her bend down to pick it up, she reminded, “Be careful of sticking your hand, don’t move.”
Zhao Xiaoxiao paused, her eyebrows arched up with an apologetic face, “I’m sorry ah Orange, I originally wanted to make breakfast, who knows I accidentally dropped the bowl.”
“It’s fine,” Su Orange put on her slippers, found a broom and dustpan, collected the broken bowl, and cleaned up the crumbs, “It’s better to eat outside.”
Zhao Xiao Xiao really has no talent in this aspect of cooking, Su Orange’s head hurts a little, and she doesn’t want to cook today, so going outside to eat saves time.
“Okay, go outside to eat.” Zhao Xiao Xiao took off her apron and put it in the kitchen cabinet, asked Su Orange, “When did you come back last night?”
“Two o’clock.” Su Orange’s voice came out from the bathroom.
“Two o’clock? In the early morning?”
“Uh-huh.”
“There’s a car in the early morning?” Zhao Xiao Xiao asked.
Su Orange’s car went in for repairs, and lately she had been riding in Zhao Xiao Xiao’s car at work, returning to Nanping by taxi.
“No, hitchhiking back.” Su Orange’s teeth brushing action paused, not waiting for Zhao Xiao Xiao to ask, first recited, “Hitchhiking back in Zhou Yuchen’s car.”
“Who!” Zhao Xiao Xiao walked over in big strides, picking at the door and asked, “Zhou Yuchen? Ex-boyfriend? Party A? Mr. Zhou?”
“Uh-huh.” Su Orange spat out the foam in her mouth, “It’s him.”
“You guys-” Zhao Xiaoxiao pressed her face against the doorframe, her eyelashes blinking and blinking, “Made up?”
“How can that be.” Su Orange spat out the mouthwash in her mouth and took a tissue to wipe her lips, “He happened to go to Nanping, I stopped by to take his car back.”
“Going to Nanping? In the middle of the night? And on the way?” How come Zhao Xiao Xiao didn’t believe it so much, she raised her eyebrows, “He wouldn’t have gone to pick you up on purpose, right?”
Su Orange was applying cosmetics to the mirror, hearing Zhao Xiao Xiao’s words her fingers stopped on her face for a few seconds, then continued, her eyes flickering, “No, it was the director who asked him to.”
How is it still related to the director.
Zhao Xiao Xiao was even more confused, Su Orange looked at her dumbfounded look and changed the topic, “It’s half past seven, quickly go and clean up, otherwise you’ll be late for work in a while.”
“Seven thirty?!” Zhao Xiao Xiao went back to the bedroom with a “I’ll go”, followed by the sound of the cabinet door opening and closing, the commotion was loud.
Su Orange put on makeup when she saw the wound at the corner of her lips, the tips of her eyebrows knitted and then loosened, after a night the wound color faded a lot, after applying lipstick basically not very visible.
She stared and remembered what Zhou Guiqin said, asking her if she was bitten by someone, in fact, it was not bitten by someone else, it was her own accidental bite.
After going out from the restroom that night, she went back to the private room, she carried her bag and said she wanted to leave, everyone disagreed and had to pull her to have another drink.
It was at that time that she bit it, inadvertently, but the bite was very hard, and when the pain hit her, she instantly sobered up a lot.
Su orange didn’t pay too much attention to the road to apply lipstick a little heavier, the next second, she lightly hissed, the breach that seems to be some bleeding, she took a tissue to wipe, wait for the blood to solidify, continue to apply.
Today’s lipstick color was heavier than ever, Zhao Xiao Xiao looked at her several times with her sideways eyes, “This makeup of yours is a bit gaudy today, especially the lipstick.”
Su Orange hmmmed, “Didn’t sleep well, used makeup to cover it up.”
Zhao Xiao Xiao was very interested in her sentence about not sleeping well and asked, “Why didn’t you sleep well? Did something happen on the way back?”
She smiled proactively, “Reveal it.”
Su Orange also smiled, “Nothing happened, I didn’t sleep well because of work.”
Zhao Xiaoxiao did not gossip, hummed, and then despondent: “The director is in a bad mood lately, we can’t mess with it.”
Su Orange ruffled the hair on her shoulder, “Work well, the director won’t say anything.”
They originally intended to eat breakfast outside and then go to the company, who knows that the group suddenly sent an announcement half an hour after the meeting, but also what to eat breakfast, rushed to the company.
The morning meetings were held one after another and only ended at noon.
Su orange stomach is a little uncomfortable, did not go to eat lunch, lying on the table to rest, confused, when the phone rang.
Yu Lele called her, Su Orange connected, Yu Lele said, “Baby, Zhang Huan came back from B city, get together tonight?”
Su Orange asked while rubbing her stomach, “Just us? Where?”
“There’s a new hot pot restaurant near your company, how about there?” Yu Lele said, “I haven’t seen you for a long time, I miss you.”
“I just saw you last week.” Su Orange said with a smile, “It hasn’t been a long time.”
“One day’s absence is like three autumns, I don’t care, I want to see you tonight.” Yu Lele pouted.
“Okay, see.” Su Orange looked at the memo, “But I will be late from work.”
“No rush, it doesn’t matter how late.” Yu Lele said, “Then I’ll tell Mai and Huanhuan later.”
“Well, you arrange it.” Su Orange’s stomach ached again, she didn’t say anything else with both eyebrows furrowed.
Yu Lele recited Zhang Yang, saying that Zhang Yang had apologized to her, but she hadn’t thought about whether to forgive him or not.
She asked Su Orange: “Do you think I should forgive him?”
Su Orange returned, “Yes.”
“No.” Yu Lele said, “I can’t forgive so easily, I have to make him beg me. Orange, he will also come at night, you remember to help me teach him a good lesson.”
“Okay, I’ll help you teach him a lesson.” Su Orange’s forehead was sweating, she pursed her lips, “Lele, I’m going to go and get busy, I’ll talk again tonight.”
“That’s fine, you go.” Yu Lele added, “Right, Zhao Chuan is also free today, why don’t we come together ah?”
“Uh, whatever.” Su Orange hung up the phone first after saying that.
She pulled open the drawer to find out the medicine for stomach pain, and ate two pills with water, after a long time, her stomach pain was finally relieved.
She shook her head, really the more she lives, the more petulant she becomes.
Putting the medicine bottle back into the drawer, she saw the empty bottle, suddenly, she could not remember what was in her mind when she brought it to the company.
Seeing the object?
She wasn’t quite sure anymore.
After staring at it for a moment, she closed the drawer and locked it.
In addition to the meeting in the afternoon, Su Orange has been busy doing drawings, buttocks did not move a bit, water is not even drink a mouthful, well almost at the end of the day when the revision is completed, she took the drawings into the director’s office.
Liu Mei has always been very optimistic about Su Orange’s business ability, took the drawings and carefully looked at them, then nodded, “Yes.”
The drawings were passed, but the business plan still had to be changed.
Their company’s division of labor is not so strict, are multi-tasking, this also need to know, that also need to know.
Liu Mei returned the drawings to Su Orange and instructed her to make a new business plan tomorrow, Jali’s side was not satisfied with the previous one, and the data and quotes all needed to be adjusted.
It’s best to go to the library and check the information again in detail.
Su Orange nodded, “Okay.”
This busy, directly to the end of work.
Yu Lele sent a weibo to Su Orange, saying that Zhang Yang and the others had already gone, asking when she could arrive.
Orange: [Half an hour.]
Lele: [No rush, we’ll wait for you.]
Someone is chatting in the private room, the moment I hear it, it’s Zhang Yang’s voice, his voice is getting louder and louder every year, first he dislikes Zhao Chuan for a couple of moments, and then he asks Zhou Yuchen, ”Brother Sam, tell me, why did you go to Nanping all of a sudden? Don’t tell me it’s because of work, you’ve just returned to China, and there’s no contact with the Nanping side.”
He leaned towards Zhou Yuchen and squeezed his eyes, “It can’t be for Su Orange.”
“Know you still ask.” Zhou Yuchen’s jacket hangs on the coat rack behind him, wearing only a white shirt, the top button of the shirt is open with two buttons, revealing a delicate collarbone.
The cuffs are very regular, not pulled up, and you can only see his cold white wrists, and a little black halo on the inside of his wrists, because they are blocked with a wristwatch and cuffs, so you can’t see what the black halo is.
Maybe it is the reason that he has become the head of the company, the sitting posture is not like the carelessness before, sitting very upright.
His shoulders didn’t slump down either, they were very straight.
Now he, give a person a kind of transformed sense of vision, from the gangster bad into an elite person, the debauchery seems to be gone, cold look over, gentlemanly.
Of course, this is the still state of him, if he opened his mouth, it would be different, the bone is still so bad, love to dislike people, dislike up without any hesitation.
“Really for her ah?” Something flashed in Zhang Yang’s eyes, “What, planning to chase someone again?”
Zhou Yuchen lighter in his hand fell to the table, fingertips gently knocked, knocked out a fine sound, the light reflected his face brimming, like a layer of light plated, dense.
The pair of seductive eyes flowed with burning light, the corner of his lips lightly hooked, hmmm, “to chase.”
“Su Orange is not very good to chase now.” Zhang Yang gave him a strong medicine, “like her too many people, one by one on the rush, I introduced her to the one before, and then is not divided it, the past few days has been begging me to give a handful of handful. I heard that their company also has a lot of young talent in pursuit of her, but she did not let go.”
“You have to be mentally prepared, don’t back down after being rejected once or twice.” Zhang Yang raised his eyebrows, “If that’s the case I advise you not to pursue, rather than backing out in the middle of the game it’s better not to start, don’t you think so.”
Zhou Yuchen listens to him talk a bunch of shit and doesn’t hear a clue, “What do you mean?”
“I mean, chasing after people, let’s chase properly, brother Sam, I’m optimistic about you.” Zhang Yang patted Zhou Yuchen’s shoulder, “But ah, if you decide to chase, can not go, long-distance love not many can stick to the end.”
Zhou Yuchen heard out, Zhang Yang this is afraid of him leaving, he lifted his eyes to look at him, his eyes burning, “Who told you I will leave?”
Zhang Yang pause, he smiled and said, “Do not go good, do not go good, so that we can get together all right.”
Zhao Chuan also chimed in, “Brother Sam, it’s great that you can stay.”
Several people became the same as when they were in school again, you dislike me, I dislike you.
Suddenly, Zhang Yang remembered something, “That, Brother Sam there’s something I need to tell you, don’t be angry when you hear it.”
“Say.”
“That is, Lele asked me before if you were single, I hesitated for a moment, she automatically assumed that you weren’t single, and then asked me who the person you were dating was. I then mentioned Sun Xia, and she decided that the one you’re with is Sun Xia.”
Zhang Yang said hastily jumping away, “Brother Sam, I’m wrong, don’t hit me.”
The reason why Zhang Yang spoke like this, the purpose was to stimulate Su Orange, not to say that jealousy can speed up ice breaking, he wanted to see Su Orange and Zhou Yuchen back together.
Zhou Yuchen didn’t kick him, just raised his eyebrows and answered very lightly, “Got it.”
Just like when he was in the car, Feng Zhao asked him if he was single, he was going to say single at that time, only to suddenly change his mind after catching Su Orange’s eyes.
He wanted to see if she would be jealous for him.
As a result-
No.
She didn’t care at all.
At that moment, his heart felt like it had been stepped on hard, and compared to the two of them, she was still more ruthless.
Su Orange arrived when everyone had already arrived, there was only one seat left at the full table, which was beside Zhou Yuchen.
Su Orange didn’t expect Zhou Yuchen to come, so the first time she saw him, she paused, even when Yu Lele called her, she didn’t hear.
In the end, Su Orange sat next to Zhou Yuchen, and just after she sat down, the well-packaged tableware in front of her was torn open, and then the cups and plates were taken out one by one.
Then came the methodical cleaning, just like countless times before, as long as she was with him, she never had to clean the tableware herself, he would very carefully clean it all, and would wipe it with a paper towel, and then do the final cleaning.
After it was thoroughly clean, he poured the tea into a cup and pushed it in front of her as if nothing had happened, this familiar process did not look like it was eight years apart at all, it was as if he had been doing this for all these years.
Su Orange had not experienced the feeling of being taken care of for a long time, her eyes were inexplicably a little astringent, she closed her eyes and opened them again, the dissimilarity in the bottom of her eyes was hidden.
She said, “Thank you.”
In the past, whenever he did this, she would always go behind his back to grab his hand, to tug at the hem of his shirt, and quietly pout at him.
And blush, but never say thank you.
They weren’t the kind of uncooked relationship that said thank you.
Now…
Zhou Yuchen’s throat knots rolled, and his faint voice returned, “No need.”
Seeing this, Zhang Yang deliberately coaxed, “Brother Sam, still the same as before, only taking care of Su Orange, not even caring about us, still so biased.”
“Scram.” Zhou Yuchen used his chopsticks to pick up a cooked shrimp and threw it into his bowl, “Eat quickly.”
Smoothly picking up another piece of pork ribs and putting it on Su Orange’s plate, his voice also softened a few points, “Braised, your favorite.”
The water vapor in the pot gurgled out, Zhao Chuan was putting mutton into the pot, and said without lifting his head, “Su Orange, you see Brother Sam still remembers your preferences, our Brother Sam is not bad, right?”
“Consider it.”
Su Orange didn’t ask what to consider and didn’t answer, instead, in front of them, she pinched out the ribs and put them on Yu Lele’s plate, saying in a faint voice, “Sorry, I’ve long since stopped liking ribs.”
Zhou Yuchen’s fingers holding the chopsticks trembled, and his heart shrank, sadly thinking that it was not only the ribs that she disliked, but also him.